31, CHAPEL STREET
31, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362506
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 31, CHAPEL STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 31, CHAPEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362506
- Date first listed:
- 07-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 31, CHAPEL STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 31, CHAPEL STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 31, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ellel
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 48442 55474
Details
SD 45 NE ELLEL CHAPEL STREET
8/101 No.31 -
- II
House, 1701. Sandstone rubble with steep slate roof. Originally end-lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays. Windows have remains of rebated and chamfered surrounds and are either sashed or 6-pane sashes. Door, now blocked to form a window, in left-hand bay, has chamfered surround with 'WCE 1701' on lintel. Gables have copings with kneelers and chimneys. The left-hand chimney cap projects on stone corbels; the right-hand cap has a weathered offset and cyma cornice. At the rear are 3 2-light mullioned windows (one blocked), one formerly of 4 lights with one mullion remaining, and a one-light chamfered stair window. Inside, the ground floor is divided by a roughly framed wattle-and-daub partition. The main living room has 2 chamfered axial main ceiling joists, spliced near the gable wall where the firehood bressumer which once supported them has been removed. On the 1st floor, at the opposite end, is a chamfered stone fireplace, possibly for a parlour. The roof has 2 trusses with tie beams and light collars, re-using cruck timber.
Listing NGR: SD4844255474
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 182165
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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